Celia Viñas Bilingual Learning Site
4 ESO students have been learning about different issues related to music: how music can bring people together, different types of music, how they feel when they listen to music and how to talk about their favourite singer or band. Some of them have made very interesting posters about the effects of music in our brain. You can watch examples on the main board of the corridor. Hope you like them!
Our language asistant, Nick Mosley, has been explaining very interesting facts about the origin of Halloween and other customs such as Trick or treat and Jack -O’-lantern to 4 ESO students.
After that, they have played Kahoot to practise the things they have learnt.
We wish everyone a Happy Halloween!!!
3º ESO C students have made some research to find out about the Spanish tradition in All Saints´ Day (or All Hallows´
Day), a festivity which has been forgotten due to the popularity of festivities from other cultures at the same time. The purpose of this activity was to claim the important role of our traditions which can coexist with customs from other cultures. The origin of the word “Halloween” comes from the expression “All Hallows´ Eve”.
Esmeralda’s Haunted House
“Once upon a time, in the small village of Guajaneco, a beautiful woman, Esmeralda Bolívar, lived with her beloved twins, Gabriela y Graciela. But the happiness turned into tragedy when the twins disappeared one day and they never were seen again. Esmeralda was absolutely in despair, she looked for them everywhere, but nobody found them. Time went by and poor Esmeralda went mad… she spent the days crying and when someone from the village suggested the twins could have been kidnapped and killed, she swore to end the murderer’s life (with a knife) if she became to discover him. Unfortunately, full of sadness, Esmeralda died with no revenge. However, there is a legend which says that Esmeralda could revive if the kidnapper of the twins dares to approach her grave…”
1 ESO students have visited some of the most unknown places in our high school in a Ghost Walk. These places have been decorated like a Haunted House to tell them the sad story of “Esmeralda and her twin daughters” . Students have enjoyed a lot during this activity and have learned about different cultures in this story which mixes the anglosaxon festivity of Halloween with the hispanic customs of celebrating “el día de todos los Santos”.
This is the first one of a group of sociocultural activities that we are going to organize to learn about the features of American places which integrate American and Hispanic cultures, a perfect example of bilinguism : California and Baja California.
We want to thank the 1st and 2nd IB students and the teachers Belén Martínez, Antonia Torres, Raquel Yebra, Maoles Gámez ,Leticia Alonso and our language assistant, Jazmin Roblés for their enthusiasm and excellent performance.
Our 1º ESO A students with their teacher, Amparo, have created these totem poles remembering the indigeneous tradition in Canada. These poles were made in the Northwest coast in Canada before Europeans arrived there and they represented the family’s or nation’s history. After being forgotten for many years, Canadian people are proud of showing their ancestors’ culture with these amazing monumental poles similar to the ones that our students have created.
During the following week, our students and teachers are going to do some activities related to our language assistant’s country, Canada. We are glad to know he will work with us next course and we will have more opportunities to know this surprising country.
We hope everybody will enjoy these activities.
1st of ESO C students have been making presentations using Genially about different topics of Canada, our language assistant’s amazing country.
Canada is a wonderful country. After a few sessions of preparation and a bit of rehearsal, 3º ESO A students were able to manage to highlight the most important features of this country. Eventually, they made a video to encourage all of us to visit it.
We want to thank Nick Mosley, who is the Canadian language assistant at school this course, for helping us.
Even though, we enjoy reading all the year round, we love celebrating this event preparing some activities for the World Books Day. Some of our ESO and Sixth Form students have prepared Book trailers using the Flipgrid app, other students have written and presented one chapter of their fictional biographies (designing their own covers) , others have done dramatised reading in class. and finally, we saw a theatre play at Maestro Padilla Auditorium.
Obviously, this is just one day and we want to keep on having fun with books every single moment so you will be informed of more activities through the course soon. Now, you can enjoy with some examples of 1 ESO B (book trailers : Juan Padilla, Ana del Águila del Campo, and Nazaret Díaz López ) and 3º ESO A (dramatised reading):
3 ESO A students were encouraged to carry out a piece of dramatised reading in class to bear in mind how important books are in our life. Although it is not as easy as we may think, they tried hard and discovered that reading aloud might be something interesting to enjoy.
Last Monday 21st March,students from 1°ESO A carried out a poetry workshop to celebrate the International Day of Poetry. Eveyone could write his or her poem in an easy and creative way, just following some sort of ‘ poem recipes’! The results can be read in the High School corridor, next to the group’s classroom.
‘Poetry,the extraordinary perception of the ordinary ‘.
